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I miss roleplaying. I miss the spontaneousness and the back and forth and the influence of other people. Still don't miss the bit where half the really amazing ideas have to be abandoned because they don't work for other people, or the bit where I really want to be writing and roleplaying is only at most half about writing, but...

Hmm.

I can't regret turning my original spontaneous project (In Betweens) into something with an outline (without the outline, I'd never have gotten it to go anywhere nearly so interesting as where it's going to), but perhaps I need to do something a bit more spontaneous.

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nemo_r

I know what you mean. I think about how much I miss that connection with other people, that awesome, stay up late creating amazing things, feeling. But then I remember how slow three person threads get, and that awful sinking feeling when you realise the person you're threading with has lost interest in your plot. Or the crash after a really intense few days of tagging.

Though that last might just be down to my awful organisational skills.

And yeah, I trick myself into thinking that RPing counts as writing time, but it doesn't really, and all my fic writing drops off when I'm RPing because WOW does it eat up time.

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lookingforoctober

Oh, that's it exactly. Especially the last bit (not that I'm claiming to have the best organization or self control when it comes to roleplaying either).

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nemo_r

Ugh, it's so bad. And I'm incapable of just sticking to one character. I always ALWAYS end up adding and adding and then I have 8 characters running at the same time and 4 major plots and it's this insane tagging frenzy and then I CRASH AND BURN and leave all my games and drop all my characters and wait a month and then DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN.

I am completely incapable of maintaining a steady, healthy balance. It's quite sad.

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lookingforoctober

Eight is unthinkable to me. I know people do it, but I can't go over fourish without instantly getting lost. I tend to take one character and do everything possible with them, though.